Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...active committee manager to do the real political work. For this new professional post, with $15,000 salary, Robert H. Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the Treasury Department, was tentatively chosen. Mr. Lucas, 41, energetic, intelligent, managed the Coolidge campaign in Kentucky in 1924, knows how to collect money either for the Government or a political party...
...indecent picture is bad enough . . . but a postage stamp, whose back side must be licked! . . . Millions of innocent children collect stamps...
...does want-he desperately wants-to collect more than a measly 5% on U. S. imports. Vith the treasury at Muscat running perilously low, representatives of Oman recently appealed as suppliants to the Great White President and his Statesman Stimson...
...Daily News. This occurred immediately after Reporter Brundidge had revealed that the murdered Julius Rosenheim, "squawker, fixer and shakedown artist," had been Reese's tipster. Reese admitted the alliance, but vehemently denied knowing that Rosenheim used threats of exposure in the News as a club with which to collect underworld money...
...Passersby thought they saw signs of economizing in the dimming of the building's lobby lights at night and the failure of searchlights to play on the 1,046-ft. pinnacle as advertised. Another seeming portent was a lien on the building filed by Architect William Van Alen to collect $725,000 of the $865,000 he claimed was due him. Most persistent and grave of all rumors was the story that Mr. Chrysler no longer held control of Chrysler Building Corp. (not connected with Chrysler Corp.). This gravest report Mr. Chrysler's representatives stoutly denied. They pointed...